1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,839 Speaker 1: What are the biggest bombshells in the latest Russiagate document dump, 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,360 Who are the media co conspirators still covering up the hoax? 3 00:00:07,719 --> 00:00:10,199 And what does the Scottie Scheffler Buzz teach us about 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,960 America's ongoing vibe shift. All that and more on the 5 00:00:14,039 --> 00:00:31,320 Kylie Cast. Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Kylie Cast. 6 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,240 I'm Kylie Griswold, Managing editor at The Federalist. Be sure 7 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,399 to like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,399 if you're just listening, go check out the full video 9 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,799 version of the show on my personal YouTube channel or 10 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:48,719 the Federalist channel on Rumble. As always, you can email 11 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:51,560 the show at radio at the Federalist dot com. I 12 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,079 would love to hear from you, you know what. I 13 00:00:54,159 --> 00:00:57,960 am shocked, shocked, I tell you, it really is just 14 00:00:58,039 --> 00:01:00,719 so hard to believe that explosive news news broke this 15 00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:05,719 week about a nearly decades long Democrat manufactured hoax, and 16 00:01:05,799 --> 00:01:09,560 the media, well, they just don't think there's anything worth covering. 17 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,719 That's so out of character for them, isn't it not. 18 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,799 I'm talking, of course, about Russiagate, the conspiracy theory cooked 19 00:01:17,879 --> 00:01:22,239 up by Hillary Clinton the DNC and Obama's intel agencies 20 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,640 that Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the 21 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,359 twenty sixteen election. Now, we've known for years, thanks to 22 00:01:30,439 --> 00:01:33,319 rigorous reporting from the likes of Molly Hemingway and Marco 23 00:01:33,359 --> 00:01:36,519 Cleveland at the Federalist, that Russiagate is nothing but a 24 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,719 giant hoax, one that damaged the country in ways we 25 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,159 can't even begin to comprehend. It hamstrung the duly elected 26 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:47,000 President of the United States, Donald Trump, It wasted hundreds 27 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,879 of millions of taxpayer dollars, It screwed up our foreign policy, 28 00:01:51,359 --> 00:01:54,640 It led to a pointless and wasteful Special Council investigation, 29 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:59,879 and it completely destroyed any remaining credibility of US intel agencies, 30 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,519 just to name a few of its many consequences. But 31 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,840 thanks to newly released documents from Tulci Gabberd, the Director 32 00:02:05,879 --> 00:02:09,759 of National Intelligence, and John Radcliffe, the director of the CIA, 33 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:14,680 we now know how the hoagues got started. Specifically, we 34 00:02:14,759 --> 00:02:18,759 know definitively that Barack Obama and his top intel officials 35 00:02:19,159 --> 00:02:22,639 not only whipped up a fake intelligence assessment to claim 36 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,840 Trump was conspiring with Russia to steal the twenty sixteen election, 37 00:02:26,599 --> 00:02:30,520 but that they had consistent and reliable intel showing the 38 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:35,840 exact opposite, that there was no Russia collusion and that 39 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,800 Putin did not interfere in the election to help Donald Trump, 40 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,719 and they buried this intel. We also know that the 41 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:49,199 corporate media basically acted as Democrats stenographers in immediately running 42 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,000 with Obama's fake narrative, despite the fake intel assessment not 43 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,159 even having been cooked up yet. Then this past Wednesday, 44 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,319 Tulsi Gabbert declassified more documents, this time from a House 45 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,199 Intel staff report. These new documents show, among other things, 46 00:03:04,599 --> 00:03:09,840 that then CIA Director John Brennan revived the completely discredited 47 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,800 and Clinton funded Steele dossier and forced it to be 48 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:19,800 included in that final and fake Intelligence Community assessment. In fact, 49 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:24,919 other senior CIA professionals warned Brennan that the fake dossier 50 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,439 should be kept out of the intelligence assessment, but Brennan 51 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,240 rejected those requests and included it anyway. Now, maybe you're 52 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,400 sick of hearing about the Russia collusion hoax and just 53 00:03:34,439 --> 00:03:37,000 wish it would die already. I mean, why should anybody 54 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:40,960 really care anymore? Trump won reelection and the bad actors, 55 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,039 including Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper, Joe Biden, 56 00:03:46,199 --> 00:03:49,680 Susan Rice, et cetera. They're mostly gone, right, so can't 57 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,120 we just move on? First of all, even if Obama, Brennan, Comy, Clapper, 58 00:03:54,159 --> 00:03:56,960 and Biden don't have nearly the influence and positioning they 59 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,400 once did, they're not really gone. Remember that during the 60 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,680 twenty twenty election, Clapper and Brennan were two of the 61 00:04:03,719 --> 00:04:07,719 more than fifty former Intel officials who characterized Hunter Biden's 62 00:04:07,759 --> 00:04:12,240 laptop as Russian disinformation to help swing the election away 63 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,479 from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. And then just this summer, 64 00:04:15,639 --> 00:04:18,920 James Comy posted and then pretended not to know what 65 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,959 eighty six forty seven meant in what could credibly be 66 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,600 considered a call for violence or at least more sedition 67 00:04:24,759 --> 00:04:27,519 against Trump. All of these hoaxers should be on their 68 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,160 way to prison for using their power to orchestrate a 69 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,680 partisan coup. But even if this list of hoaxers just 70 00:04:33,759 --> 00:04:37,920 keeps fading into oblivion, the problem is that almost all 71 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,879 of their media co conspirators are still there, and in fact, 72 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,600 they're still cashing in on their Russia hoaxing. The Washington 73 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,399 Post New York Times, CNN, Politico, and The Atlantic have 74 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:53,800 faced zero accountability for their untold lives. Jake Tapper still 75 00:04:53,879 --> 00:04:56,920 lectures from his lucrative perch at CNN and just published 76 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:01,319 a ridiculous new book, Fusion. Natasha Bircher and Charlie Savage 77 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,439 are still peddling fake news, including the recent Horsepucky about 78 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,920 Trump's Iran strike from the former and Biden's autopen from 79 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,839 the latter. Margaret Brennan still at CBS. From Rachel Maddow 80 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,439 to Kendalanian to Adam Goldman to David Korn, the list 81 00:05:16,519 --> 00:05:20,120 goes on and on and on. All of these seditious 82 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,800 co conspirators in the Russia hoaks are still churning out 83 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:27,720 regime propaganda every day and are being rewarded with bylines, 84 00:05:27,879 --> 00:05:33,120 TV contracts, Pulitzer prizes, and the ability to control the 85 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,519 flow of information to the American people. The worst part 86 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,839 is because they control the narrative, they can also ensure 87 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,360 that nobody from their ranks ever faces accountability, and all 88 00:05:44,399 --> 00:05:46,600 they have to do is pretend there's nothing to see. 89 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,560 The anti trumpers from ostensibly conservative outlets like National Review 90 00:05:50,879 --> 00:05:53,639 are no help. Of course, when people like Andy McCarthy 91 00:05:53,759 --> 00:05:56,600 go out and pretend there's nothing to see here. All 92 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,920 it does is enable the rest of the corporate media 93 00:05:58,959 --> 00:06:02,759 complex to use oose National Review as a foil see 94 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,519 even National Review says there's nothing to see here, even 95 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,040 though we know full well that the legacy media would 96 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,399 never have covered it anyway, because again they're co conspirators. 97 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,879 So of course there's been a media blackout on the 98 00:06:14,959 --> 00:06:18,480 latest bombshell reports, a collective yawn on what should be 99 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,920 the biggest story of the week, for sure, and frankly 100 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,560 the decade, the Sunday shows refused to cover it. Print 101 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,120 media did the same thing, and if they covered it 102 00:06:27,199 --> 00:06:31,480 at all, they downplayed it dramatically or completely lied about it. 103 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,839 Here are just a few of the headlines. CBS Trump's 104 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,920 intel chief Tulsea Gabbard reignites political battles with twenty sixteen 105 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:45,319 election documents on Russia. Here's CNN quote it's just wildly 106 00:06:45,399 --> 00:06:49,480 misleading end quote. Why the administration's latest allegations about the 107 00:06:49,519 --> 00:06:53,079 Russia investigation don't add up. And that quote in the 108 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,160 headline came from you guessed it, an anonymous congressional source. 109 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:02,040 Here's NBC. Trump's intelligence chief try to rewrite the history 110 00:07:02,079 --> 00:07:08,279 of the twenty sixteen election. Insane headline, ABC. Trump rehashes 111 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:13,920 years old grievances on Russia investigation after new intelligence report. 112 00:07:14,279 --> 00:07:18,600 Here's the New York Times. Gabbard releases new documents targeting 113 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:24,680 Obama administration. Just insane framing from the corporate media. Meanwhile, 114 00:07:24,839 --> 00:07:28,879 the Washington Post obscured Friday's news under this egregious headline 115 00:07:29,079 --> 00:07:33,920 quote as Magaworld focuses on Epstein, Trump seeks focus on 116 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,879 anything else end quote. Glenn Kessler's piece on the matter 117 00:07:37,959 --> 00:07:41,600 downplayed Gabbard's claims as based on quote thin gruel. The 118 00:07:41,639 --> 00:07:44,839 New York Times is Friday article about Gabbert's report buried 119 00:07:44,879 --> 00:07:49,759 the details, leading instead with Democrats' objections, as if the 120 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:52,560 most important story is what democrats have to say about 121 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,000 the news. And PR characterized the report as an attempt 122 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:00,839 quote at scrutinizing year's old intelligence community conclude usions about 123 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:05,360 Russian interference in the twenty sixteen US presidential election years old, 124 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,120 like it doesn't matter anymore. It has the same flavor 125 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:10,800 as NPR's statement about why it refused to cover the 126 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,160 Biden family corruption scandal that blew up thanks to Hunter's 127 00:08:14,199 --> 00:08:18,279 laptop right before the twenty twenty election. That's when NPR said, quote, 128 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,439 we don't want to waste our time on stories that 129 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,759 are not really stories, and we don't want to waste 130 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,399 the listeners in readers' time on stories that are just 131 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,480 pure distractions. Give me a break once again. The media 132 00:08:29,519 --> 00:08:33,440 will do everything in their power to convince you that 133 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,480 expose's about the Russia hoax that they eagerly participated in 134 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,200 are just pure distractions, but they're anything but. The corrupt 135 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,000 media's credibility has been tanking four years and for good reason. 136 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,960 But this latest media malfeasance and their seditious co conspiracy 137 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,320 in Russia Gate should serve as a reminder that you 138 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,600 shouldn't believe a single word they say because they don't 139 00:08:57,639 --> 00:09:02,000 exist to report the news. They exist clearly to help Democrats, 140 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,879 even if that means consistently covering up or obscuring the 141 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,120 biggest news stories. Unlike the corrupt media, we are going 142 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,279 to cover the news. So here to join me now 143 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,240 is The Federalist's senior legal correspondent, Margot Cleveland to share 144 00:09:16,279 --> 00:09:19,960 the biggest bombshells from this new intelligence report. Margo, thanks 145 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:20,879 so much for joining me. 146 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having me. 147 00:09:23,799 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: Oh, you bet. You have done excellent reporting on the 148 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,240 Russia hoax for years, so you've really been in the 149 00:09:30,279 --> 00:09:34,039 thick of it. What are the biggest bombshells you've found 150 00:09:34,159 --> 00:09:37,759 in Friday's document release or Wednesdays and specifically, can you 151 00:09:37,799 --> 00:09:40,919 tell us what you learned about exactly how the hoax 152 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:41,720 got started? 153 00:09:42,879 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 3: Sure, so let's just kind of put it in perspective 154 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,240 that what we're talking about now is after Trump was elected. 155 00:09:50,639 --> 00:09:55,120 So before Trump was elected, we had the whole Russia 156 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,279 conspiracy theory that he was in Putin's back pocket. All 157 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,200 that was going on. But now Trump is elected, and 158 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:07,919 the question is what happens next. Well, Obama and the 159 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,919 same folks that were pushing the Russia gate, the crossfire hurricane, 160 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:15,679 went in with what I would say the kind of 161 00:10:15,879 --> 00:10:19,679 they came in with a new flank to again try 162 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:27,320 to sink Trump. And this started with Obama telling the 163 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:31,279 Director of National Intelligence so that would have been Clapper, 164 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:37,360 that he wanted him to do an assessment of Russia's 165 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:44,639 involvement in the twenty sixteen election. And this happened on 166 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,519 a December fifth, so a little bit a month like 167 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:52,679 a month after the election, and it was done apparently 168 00:10:52,759 --> 00:10:57,240 in an oral briefing, and then after that they started 169 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,639 to have a discussion about how they were going to 170 00:10:59,639 --> 00:11:03,080 do this assessment. So one thing that's important to keep 171 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:04,240 in mind, and this is. 172 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 2: Coming from a whole bunch. 173 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:11,279 Speaker 3: Of different information that's been released recently. So we have Ratcliffe, 174 00:11:11,399 --> 00:11:17,320 our current CIA director, who released a report about the 175 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,399 intelligence assessment about Russia. 176 00:11:20,919 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 2: We also have the D and I. 177 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 3: So the Director of National Intelligence, Gabby Chelsea Gabbert, who 178 00:11:28,919 --> 00:11:34,120 released some declassified information that also dealt with that, and 179 00:11:34,159 --> 00:11:38,639 then just today we had a release of the Hipsie 180 00:11:38,639 --> 00:11:42,519 report on it. All of this together showed that what 181 00:11:42,919 --> 00:11:47,240 happened was Obama asked for this assessment. While he was 182 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:52,080 asking for this assessment about Russia and everything that happened 183 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:57,399 in the twenty sixteen election, the intelligence community was wrapping 184 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:02,559 up another assessment. It came out and said Russia didn't 185 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:07,200 hack the election. So these two things are going in tandem. 186 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:08,759 Speaker 2: And you have. 187 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,639 Speaker 3: A named source who, in the Gabert release from Friday, 188 00:12:13,799 --> 00:12:15,320 said well. 189 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,159 Speaker 2: We still need to do this briefing. 190 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:22,159 Speaker 3: It was a presidential daily brief that was talking about 191 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:26,639 what the intelligence community had concluded about whether or not 192 00:12:26,759 --> 00:12:32,120 Russia hacked the election, and until that Thursday afternoon, so 193 00:12:32,159 --> 00:12:35,200 I think it was December eighth, It might have been 194 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,120 December ninth. I think it was December eighth, but it 195 00:12:37,159 --> 00:12:41,279 was a Thursday. Everybody expected that briefing. 196 00:12:40,879 --> 00:12:41,399 Speaker 2: To go out. 197 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 3: But at the same time we have Clapper coming in 198 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:52,360 and Brendan coming in and deciding to do this rush 199 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,360 assessment that Obama had just ordered. He ordered it to 200 00:12:57,399 --> 00:13:01,120 be done with very few people involved, to be done 201 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:05,320 within like three weeks so before Trump got in. And 202 00:13:05,919 --> 00:13:10,000 what Obama had done is he had charged Clapper with 203 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:17,000 coming to a Friday National security meeting with basically an 204 00:13:17,039 --> 00:13:19,360 outline of what this assessment would look like. 205 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,879 Speaker 2: So we have these two balls kind of in the air. 206 00:13:24,399 --> 00:13:27,559 Speaker 3: And what happened is on Thursday, at the end of 207 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,240 the day, all of a sudden, out of the blue, 208 00:13:30,799 --> 00:13:34,679 the Office of National Intelligence came out and said, we're 209 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,320 not going to put out this presidential brief that says 210 00:13:38,639 --> 00:13:40,440 Russia did not hack the election. 211 00:13:41,279 --> 00:13:45,639 Speaker 1: That I'm wing was consistent with the intelligence that had 212 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:47,399 been up to that point, right, I mean, that was 213 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,279 a consistent finding that Russia did not hack the election. 214 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:54,039 It was only after that that suddenly we got Russia, Russia, Russia, 215 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,200 which was not consistent with the prevailing narrative up until 216 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,320 that point, or prevailing intelligence. I should say. I also 217 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,480 wanted to ask you about on that point the presidential 218 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,960 daily briefs that would have come out and said that, yeah, 219 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,919 Russia did not hack the election at this point, because 220 00:14:11,919 --> 00:14:14,879 it's in December, this is after Donald Trump is the 221 00:14:14,919 --> 00:14:17,200 president elect, and so he would have been privy to 222 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,279 that brief at that point, correct, which is an important 223 00:14:20,279 --> 00:14:20,840 point here. 224 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely he would have been privy, and in fact, 225 00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:31,279 Michael Flynn, who was the incoming national I think dn 226 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:36,440 I he said, I was getting these presidential briefs already, 227 00:14:36,919 --> 00:14:40,559 so he would have gotten this information which would have 228 00:14:40,679 --> 00:14:46,519 given Trump the actual intel to push back about the Russia, Russia, Russia. 229 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,600 I do want to talk about this just for a 230 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:53,480 minute too, because you are seeing the media completely ignore 231 00:14:53,519 --> 00:14:58,159 this story by saying, well, nobody thought the election was hacked. 232 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 2: Actually, like, what is it? 233 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 3: Sixty percent of Democrats actually thought Russia came in and 234 00:15:04,639 --> 00:15:05,399 switched the vote. 235 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:07,519 Speaker 2: I don't remember if it was sixty fifty four. It 236 00:15:07,559 --> 00:15:10,279 was a huge number, and you. 237 00:15:10,399 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 3: Had Democrats starting to push that hoax, and they didn't 238 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,879 necessarily do it like, oh, they came in and they took. 239 00:15:18,679 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 2: Over the computer. 240 00:15:19,879 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 3: They used this kind of vague language that created this inference. 241 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 2: Even Obama did it. So for people who are saying that, oh, 242 00:15:29,399 --> 00:15:29,799 this is. 243 00:15:29,759 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 3: A nothing burger, that's a bunch of bologny, it's a 244 00:15:33,679 --> 00:15:34,759 huge thing. 245 00:15:34,919 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 2: That they buried it because not only did. 246 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:42,759 Speaker 3: It refute just the whole idea of Russia being involved, 247 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,240 but they started this secondary theory. 248 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 2: That there was actually hacking going on. So it was huge. 249 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,159 Speaker 3: It would have been Trump, Flynn as well as his 250 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,360 other folks that would have known it. And this is 251 00:15:56,399 --> 00:15:59,840 also a key point of the timing. And this came 252 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,120 from the release from HIPSY today. 253 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:06,639 Speaker 1: So the House howse Intel Oversight? 254 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 3: Sorry, yeah, how is Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence? 255 00:16:13,799 --> 00:16:14,399 Speaker 1: Yes, thank you? 256 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,759 Speaker 2: So I always have to remember that too. 257 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:22,279 Speaker 3: So HIPSY issued a big report on the ICA, so 258 00:16:22,399 --> 00:16:27,919 this Intelligence Community Assessment, Intelligence Community Assessment that Obama had written, 259 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,759 and one of the things that they found is the 260 00:16:30,799 --> 00:16:34,159 reason this rush mattered is the only people who were 261 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:38,840 having any impact on it were the Obama people, and 262 00:16:38,879 --> 00:16:41,519 the only people who could make decisions on whether or 263 00:16:41,559 --> 00:16:45,360 not something would go in were the Obama people, and 264 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,840 the Obama people were briefing the Senate on it. So 265 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,879 that's another thing the media is doing right now. They 266 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,879 are continuing and I think I posted this yesterday. I 267 00:16:55,919 --> 00:16:59,360 can't believe they're continuing to say Russia wanted Trump to 268 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:04,200 win because we now know that that intelligence was fake 269 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,559 and they're pointing to, well, the Senate at this briefing, 270 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:10,640 and the Senate it's like, yeah, because Brennan did this, 271 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,559 because Obama told him to do it, and it was 272 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:14,960 fake from day one. 273 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where all. 274 00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 3: Of these intelligence reports that have come out are providing 275 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:21,119 us as detail. 276 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, so I want to ask you about this Hipsie 277 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,680 report from Wednesday. So there were professionals within the CIA, 278 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:30,799 like top professionals. Molly reported on this at the Federalist 279 00:17:30,839 --> 00:17:34,759 this week, and these top CIA officials objected to the 280 00:17:34,839 --> 00:17:38,839 Russia collusion lies and specifically the bogus Steele dossier being 281 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:42,440 included in the final ICA, the Final Intelligence Community Assessment. 282 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:45,960 But John Brennan, who is then the CIA director, forced 283 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,599 those lies in anyway. And Sean Davis had a really 284 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,960 great tweet on this explaining that basically they created multiple 285 00:17:54,039 --> 00:17:56,440 versions of the ICA, one that went to Congress, one 286 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,440 that went to the public, and one that went to 287 00:17:58,599 --> 00:18:00,880 the Obama administration. And the ones that went to the 288 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,200 public and Congress did not include the Steele dossier in 289 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,319 the body of this. That's maybe where it was included 290 00:18:06,319 --> 00:18:08,920 as an annex, but then it was in the body 291 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,559 of the Obama ICA. And so the idea is, you know, 292 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,039 the people saying, oh, the Steele dossier was not relied 293 00:18:16,079 --> 00:18:18,200 on at all, it absolutely was. This was like a 294 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:20,960 primary thing. And so can you speak to what kind 295 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:25,039 of tricks the hoax organizers used to keep internal critics 296 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,839 like these top CIA officials from being able to fight 297 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,839 these lies from Brennan and others more effectively. 298 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 3: So one of the things they did is they didn't 299 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,200 give them access to it, so they in fact, it 300 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,359 wasn't until December twentieth that they even knew about the 301 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,480 dossier and that these people wanted it and. 302 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 2: Included in it. 303 00:18:44,759 --> 00:18:47,519 Speaker 3: Then other people who were writing it still didn't even 304 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:48,519 get to see that. 305 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:51,279 Speaker 2: They didn't get to see what Steele had written on it. 306 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:56,279 Speaker 3: And then beyond that, they didn't have really any say 307 00:18:56,279 --> 00:18:58,359 in it. When they went through it to say whether 308 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:00,440 or not that this was good bad. 309 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 2: So there was a lot of objections to including it. 310 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,920 But one of the things that the Hipsie report from 311 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:07,039 today did is. 312 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 3: Not just did it go and say, yes, the dossier 313 00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:13,319 was in it and it was inappropriate. 314 00:19:13,759 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 2: I think one of the most. 315 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:21,319 Speaker 3: Shocking revelations is that Brennan went back and ordered the 316 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:28,240 creation of three intelligence reports that were then incorporated into 317 00:19:28,279 --> 00:19:34,200 this ica. Those three intelligence reports were based on intel 318 00:19:34,279 --> 00:19:38,319 reporting that they had previously, so the intelligence community had 319 00:19:38,319 --> 00:19:41,680 previously said, no, this is bogus, we don't think that 320 00:19:41,759 --> 00:19:45,559 this is weighty. They didn't even write it up, they 321 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:48,640 didn't even make it as a report. But now Obama 322 00:19:48,759 --> 00:19:52,599 wants this report to come out about Russia, and Brennan says, 323 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,119 you need to create these three reports based on this 324 00:19:56,319 --> 00:20:00,960 intel that had already been discounted. They relied in the 325 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,759 still dossier, they relied on these three other documents, and 326 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:09,599 internally the professionalists were saying, this is not white this 327 00:20:09,799 --> 00:20:12,799 information is not screened, it shouldn't be included in it. 328 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:18,440 And they also misrepresented what those different documents said. So 329 00:20:18,559 --> 00:20:21,640 it wasn't really that they created the reports that shouldn't 330 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:22,200 have been created. 331 00:20:22,279 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 2: And relied on them. 332 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 3: They created them, and then they inaccurately paraphrased what they 333 00:20:27,519 --> 00:20:31,079 created and put that in there. And on top of 334 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:35,480 all that, they left out a ton of information that 335 00:20:35,519 --> 00:20:38,839 would have showed that Russia was not trying to get 336 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:43,319 Trump to win, not just good intell on that, but 337 00:20:43,559 --> 00:20:47,759 logical conclusions such as Russia had all this other Dirda 338 00:20:47,799 --> 00:20:52,039 and Hillary but they didn't release it. Why because Russia 339 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,680 was keeping it in its back pocket for after she 340 00:20:54,799 --> 00:20:59,920 won the election. This report from Hipsie is so damning, 341 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,319 and it goes to the exact same points that Gabbert 342 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:08,359 and Ratcliffe have released, and that the media is continuing 343 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,759 to ignore and instead of running up this flag about Epstein, 344 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:18,200 which is just laughable, but they're doing it. They're going 345 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:20,720 to keep doing it, and it's got to stop. 346 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: That seems to be one of the main themes of 347 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:29,400 all of this is just reviving already debunked things like 348 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:34,000 the three reports you're referencing, or the Steele dossier, or 349 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:39,000 making definitive claims about something that's super vague. There was 350 00:21:39,039 --> 00:21:42,200 one line in particular from the Hipsia report that specifically 351 00:21:42,279 --> 00:21:46,240 mentioned that five different people saw it, meaning five different things. 352 00:21:46,279 --> 00:21:49,240 It was a fragment I think that implied that Putin 353 00:21:49,279 --> 00:21:51,039 had helped Trump or something I forget. Maybe you can 354 00:21:51,079 --> 00:21:53,000 tell me exactly what that line was. I don't recall, 355 00:21:53,079 --> 00:21:56,200 but just the idea that like, we can draw these 356 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,440 definitive statements, or that Brennan could know, you know, with 357 00:21:58,599 --> 00:22:01,160 high degree of confidence that this is what was going on, 358 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,279 and it's like, no, no, there was no confidence about this. 359 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:05,720 It was all a hack job. 360 00:22:06,079 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 3: Right, And I don't remember the exact language, but it 361 00:22:08,759 --> 00:22:12,640 was something to the effect of that Putin anticipated Trump winning. 362 00:22:12,759 --> 00:22:15,839 So it was something like that, and that they converted 363 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:17,680 that into he wants Trump to win. 364 00:22:17,799 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 2: Right. 365 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,039 Speaker 3: But there's another detail in here that was really key. 366 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:28,519 That Intel came out before the Republican National Convention, before 367 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,759 Trump had gotten the nomination, when there was still this 368 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,680 idea that there was going to be a push to 369 00:22:35,839 --> 00:22:39,039 kind of push Trump out and get a new person in. 370 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,839 And the natural reading of it should have been Trump 371 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,519 is going to be the nominee of the Republicans, He's 372 00:22:46,599 --> 00:22:50,319 going to win that, not. 373 00:22:50,319 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 2: That he's going to win the election. 374 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 3: And so not only did it mean five different things 375 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,880 to five different people, but it totally ignored the context 376 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,880 of when that reding supposedly was made. 377 00:23:02,559 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 2: That would have given you. 378 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:08,839 Speaker 3: A totally different view of what Putin was actually saying there. 379 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,519 Speaker 1: Right right, So switching gears just a little bit. I 380 00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:15,079 know there's been a lot of chatter about the Statute 381 00:23:15,079 --> 00:23:18,519 of limitations on potential crimes here. Do you think we 382 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:20,759 will ever see anyone held accountable? I mean, do you 383 00:23:20,759 --> 00:23:24,079 think these criminal referrals to the DOJ will actually materialize 384 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:24,720 into anything? 385 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:25,839 Speaker 2: So? 386 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 3: I do think that there are going to be charges. 387 00:23:28,319 --> 00:23:30,440 I think that they will charge a conspiracy. I think 388 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,519 they're going to be creative. I think because it's a conspiracy, 389 00:23:33,559 --> 00:23:38,039 they'll charge it outside of DC. I don't know whether 390 00:23:38,079 --> 00:23:40,720 we're going to get a conviction out of it. I 391 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:46,319 look at it two ways, that we Americans are the accountability. 392 00:23:46,519 --> 00:23:50,680 Whether someone goes to jail or not, we still have 393 00:23:50,799 --> 00:23:54,359 the power to hold them accountable, and by them. 394 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:55,559 Speaker 2: I don't just. 395 00:23:55,640 --> 00:24:01,839 Speaker 3: Need Obama, Brennan, Comy Struck. I also mean every member 396 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,640 of the media who went along with this. We can 397 00:24:05,759 --> 00:24:08,640 hold them accountable. And in a sense we already did. 398 00:24:09,079 --> 00:24:14,400 We elected Trump. Now this information is coming out, history 399 00:24:14,559 --> 00:24:17,599 will no longer allow for all these lives that have 400 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,200 been going on and I want to say this very 401 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:25,880 strikingly a decade. This has been going on for a decade, 402 00:24:26,319 --> 00:24:28,920 and we are now just learning some of these details. 403 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 2: So yes, I think we're going to have indictments. 404 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 3: Whether it results in convictions, I don't know, but we 405 00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:41,440 will have accountability as long as we as Americans demand it, 406 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:45,200 either because we will refuse to give these people the 407 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,920 time of day. They will go down as Nixon, worse 408 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,640 than Nixon in history books, and we just will not 409 00:24:52,839 --> 00:24:55,279 tolerate this from the media anymore either. 410 00:24:56,279 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: Right right, Yeah, And I think that gets to the 411 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,799 heart of what normal Americans should take away from this 412 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,200 news because I think, you know, for people who have 413 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,440 been reporting on the Russia hoax for the better part 414 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,599 of a decade, it's easy to see what these developments 415 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,279 mean for them, or for you know, people in Washington, 416 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,960 d C. But for normia Americans, you know, who may 417 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,559 not remember who Michael Flynn is or they don't remember 418 00:25:16,599 --> 00:25:19,799 who who John Brennan is or any of these key players, 419 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,440 there's still a main takeaway for them, and that is 420 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,880 the accountability point. And I think the hard thing though 421 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:30,039 for many Americans is you know, Trump's first election should 422 00:25:30,039 --> 00:25:32,119 have been an indictment of the media and an indictment 423 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,799 of the deep state and an indictment of you know, 424 00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:37,640 our corrupt intel agencies. And instead his entire first term 425 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,680 was hampered by this. And so while I think, you know, 426 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,799 his twenty twenty four election definitely is a step in 427 00:25:42,839 --> 00:25:45,759 the way of accountability, there's still so much more that 428 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,440 normi Americans want to see done, like you know, criminal 429 00:25:49,519 --> 00:25:53,720 charges and people actually going to prison. Yeah, Margo, last 430 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,119 thirty seconds. To you anything else that you want to add. 431 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,759 Speaker 3: I would just say that we are still just at 432 00:25:59,759 --> 00:26:01,079 the time top of the iceberg. 433 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 2: There is so. 434 00:26:02,279 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 3: Much more that is coming out, so many more players 435 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,880 that we don't know everything that happened. But for the 436 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,039 first time, I feel confident we're going to get this information, 437 00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:17,920 Ratcliffe gabbered Pamp Bondie. All of these folks are now 438 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,680 releasing this information. They now know who the bad guys are. 439 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,039 They're either getting them out fired or they're keeping them 440 00:26:25,079 --> 00:26:27,519 to the side so that this cannot happen again. 441 00:26:29,319 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: Well said, Thanks so much, Margo, appreciate your insights and 442 00:26:32,519 --> 00:26:35,759 you're welcome back here anytime. Thanks so much for joining me, Oh, 443 00:26:35,839 --> 00:26:36,759 thanks for having me. 444 00:26:40,519 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 4: The Federal Reserve Offices in DC are getting an extreme 445 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,839 Soviet makeover. The Watched Out on Wall Street podcast with 446 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,119 Chris Markowski. 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And no, I'm not talking about WNBA players 457 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,960 demanding to be paid what they're owed, even though the 458 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,480 league is on track to lose fifty million dollars this 459 00:27:27,599 --> 00:27:30,480 year and has literally never turned a profit. No, the 460 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,799 sports news this week is about golfer Scottie Scheffler winning 461 00:27:33,799 --> 00:27:39,000 the Open Championship, which is his fourth career major. Very impressive. Specifically, 462 00:27:39,079 --> 00:27:42,000 there was this precious moment after Scheffler won the trophy, 463 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,680 where his baby son Bennett joined him on the green. 464 00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:47,200 Check it out that he's got a. 465 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 2: Couple of interviews to do here. 466 00:27:50,079 --> 00:27:52,880 Speaker 5: This guy's sports first. Bennett is on a loose. 467 00:27:54,279 --> 00:27:55,279 Speaker 4: Very comes. 468 00:27:55,319 --> 00:28:00,599 Speaker 5: No, it's not easy of those slopes. The first time 469 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:25,400 learner right there, feeling that finnismin grew up with a 470 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:25,759 lot of. 471 00:28:26,039 --> 00:28:27,519 Speaker 4: Hardware around him. 472 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: This wasn't just a quiet, fleeting moment praised only by conservatives, 473 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,160 which is probably what you would have expected. Instead, it 474 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,680 appears to be the latest indicator of a serious cultural 475 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:44,240 vibe shift sweeping across American sports, Hollywood, corporate priorities, comedy, politics, 476 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,799 you name it. Right after the victory, Nike, of all companies, 477 00:28:48,319 --> 00:28:52,200 ran an advertisement that recognized Scheffler's dad's status as an 478 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,480 even greater win than a golf major. The first image 479 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,319 of the ad shows Scheffler kneeling on the golf course 480 00:28:58,319 --> 00:29:02,039 with his son, captioned You've already won, and then a 481 00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:05,519 second image shows Scheffler swinging a club with the caption 482 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,759 but another major never hurt. 483 00:29:08,119 --> 00:29:08,319 Speaker 2: You know. 484 00:29:08,359 --> 00:29:11,519 Speaker 1: It's a simple thing, But the corporate advertisement rightly orders 485 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:17,920 career including huge career accomplishments as subordinate to the responsibility 486 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,599 and joy of fatherhood. You know, it wasn't all that 487 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,400 long ago that Nike was running ads like this, glorifying 488 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,599 America hating athletes like former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who 489 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,680 turned his entire failed athletic career into a racial grift 490 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,079 after disrespecting the flag and national anthem throughout the twenty 491 00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:40,440 sixteen season and then remaining unsigned in twenty seventeen. Nike 492 00:29:40,599 --> 00:29:45,119 lionized Kaepernick in twenty eighteen with a melodramatic ad reading quote, 493 00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:50,000 believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. Then 494 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,559 just this past February, Nike ran a pointless, bitter feminist 495 00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:57,039 commercial during the Super Bowl that was so ridiculous it's 496 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,759 not even worth rehashing here. So now it's quite a 497 00:29:59,799 --> 00:30:02,960 vibe shift to praise fatherhood as the ultimate win. But 498 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,599 it's not just Nike. A piece at The Federalist this 499 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,720 week by Josh Wood points out that this is a trend. 500 00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:12,440 The car company Volvo ran a super pro life pro 501 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,720 family commercial earlier this year that showed the excitement and 502 00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:18,759 emotion and stakes of bringing new life into the world 503 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,319 and a recent Apple ad similarly celebrated the beautiful relationship 504 00:30:22,359 --> 00:30:26,079 between fathers and daughters. Josh Wood writes, quote brands are 505 00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:29,960 no longer selling shock, They're selling something radical in today's climate, 506 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,480 They're selling normal end quote. And you can see this 507 00:30:33,559 --> 00:30:36,359 almost everywhere. As soon to be released Lana Delray song 508 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:41,000 promotes the beauty of traditional marriage. John Bellian's incredible new album, 509 00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:45,000 Father Figure, explores the superiority of marriage and family over 510 00:30:45,039 --> 00:30:48,160 fame and fortune. His song My Boy, about his son, 511 00:30:48,559 --> 00:30:52,000 stresses the importance of present fathers and includes in its 512 00:30:52,039 --> 00:30:55,519 outro a beautiful recording of his son singing Jesus Loves Me. 513 00:30:55,759 --> 00:30:59,680 Movies like Top Gun Maverick are massively popular, while flicks 514 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,720 like The Horrible New Snow White and woke TV shows 515 00:31:02,759 --> 00:31:06,480 like Star Wars The Acolyte are huge flops. And consider 516 00:31:06,519 --> 00:31:09,960 the resurgence of anti woke comedy and the fact that ESPN, 517 00:31:10,039 --> 00:31:13,200 which is owned by Disney, just had previously canceled Write 518 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,160 Coded comedian Shane Gillis host its annual awards show. As 519 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,920 Rich Cromwell wrote of Gillis's monologue at the Federalist quote, 520 00:31:21,039 --> 00:31:24,440 while the audience didn't enthusiastically respond to most of Gillis's 521 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,839 opening monologue. The fact that Disney and ESPN chose to 522 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,519 go with him and with pre written and thus preapproved jokes, 523 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,119 shows they're starting to play catch up to the rest 524 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,920 of society. End quote. I mean, just look at the 525 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,599 subdued nature of Pride Month this year, the slow retreat 526 00:31:39,599 --> 00:31:42,640 from DEI, the popularity of podcasters who are willing to 527 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,680 say the quiet part out loud, the canning of Stephen Colbert, 528 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,319 the huge enrollment surgeon homeschooling in Christian schools, and of 529 00:31:49,359 --> 00:31:51,839 course the rejection of Kamala Harris and the reelection of 530 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,359 Donald Trump. This isn't to say the battle is over 531 00:31:54,519 --> 00:31:57,559 or that there aren't constant exceptions to the rules, obviously. 532 00:31:57,759 --> 00:32:00,319 I mean, for every company that retreats from DEI, another 533 00:32:00,359 --> 00:32:02,559 one just gets sneakier about it. And Nike can make 534 00:32:02,599 --> 00:32:04,680 all the pro family ads at once, but it's still 535 00:32:04,759 --> 00:32:07,480 using slave labor in China and will probably grace us 536 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,160 with another garbage ad any day now. But Americans are 537 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,920 clearly ready for a return to normalcy. They're rejecting all 538 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,559 the garbage that's been shoved down their throats for the 539 00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:20,000 past decade or so, and our cultural betters know it. 540 00:32:20,319 --> 00:32:23,319 Josh Wood explains it this way quote. For years, we've 541 00:32:23,319 --> 00:32:27,240 been force fed a diet of corporate sloganeering, social experiments, 542 00:32:27,279 --> 00:32:32,119 and astroturfed ideology. The commercials, the award shows, the children's programming. 543 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,920 It all felt like a coordinated effort to deconstruct everything 544 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,920 normal and call it progress. Like we've been running a 545 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,880 high stakes experiment on what happens when you remove every 546 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:46,000 natural boundary and mock every traditional norm. And while not 547 00:32:46,119 --> 00:32:49,480 everyone has the vocabulary to explain why it feels off, 548 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,920 most Americans sense it deeply. The results are in. The 549 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,079 people are tired. End quote. That's why the Scheffler Dad 550 00:32:58,119 --> 00:33:01,559 moment was so awesome. It was just another phony corporate 551 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,799 lecture or political performance drummed up by some out of 552 00:33:04,839 --> 00:33:07,759 touch strategist. It was an image of the wholesomeness and 553 00:33:07,839 --> 00:33:12,720 normalcy that so many Americans are desperate for. Political strategists 554 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,599 in Hollywood and the corporate media have created an alternate 555 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,119 reality where up is down and boys are girls and 556 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,880 wrong is right, and Scheffler represents a reality check that 557 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,680 what's always been good and true and beautiful is still 558 00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:27,160 all of those things. But at the end of the day, 559 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:31,279 Americans aren't just hungry for the fulfillment of traditional family life. 560 00:33:31,799 --> 00:33:34,839 They're spiritually hungry too, And while that's not something Nike's 561 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,680 going to dive into headfirst, it is something else that 562 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,359 Scheffler is very outspoken about. Josh Wood rightly notes in 563 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,119 his piece that Scheffler's press conferences often sound more like 564 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,640 Ecclesiastes than espn here's a peak. 565 00:33:47,119 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is. 566 00:33:47,599 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 6: Amazing to win the Open Championship, But at the end 567 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,039 of the day, having success in life, whether it be 568 00:33:53,079 --> 00:33:56,480 in golf or work or whatever it is, that's not 569 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,480 what fulfills the deepest desires of your heart. Am I 570 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,720 and grateful word? Do I enjoy it? Oh my gosh, Yeah, 571 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,599 this is a cool feeling. I can't wait to get 572 00:34:03,599 --> 00:34:07,319 home and celebrate this, this championship, you know, with the 573 00:34:07,319 --> 00:34:09,119 people that have kind of helped me along the way. 574 00:34:09,119 --> 00:34:10,840 But at the end of the day, it doesn't fulfill 575 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,840 the deepest desires in my heart. You know, just because 576 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,840 you win a golf tournament accomplished them, that doesn't make 577 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,599 you happy. As priorities are my faith in my family, 578 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,159 you know, those come first for me, golf is third 579 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:24,000 in that you know, in that order, and I've said 580 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,599 it for a long time. Golf is not how identify myself. 581 00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:31,519 I don't identify myself by winning tournaments, chasing trophies, you know, 582 00:34:33,039 --> 00:34:34,800 being famous or whatever it is like. 583 00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:39,880 Speaker 1: Success is fleeting, striving is vain, but faith in Jesus 584 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,320 is something that sustains, something that lasts passed the two 585 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,960 minute hype of winning a championship or getting a promotion, 586 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,239 or even seeing your child past their next milestone. Everybody's 587 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,480 looking for meaning. It's something Joe Rogan, among many other people, 588 00:34:53,599 --> 00:34:56,159 talks about a lot, the fear that has more jobs 589 00:34:56,159 --> 00:34:59,280 are taken over by artificial intelligence and more people come 590 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,480 to rely on the g government for everything, their meaning disappears, 591 00:35:02,639 --> 00:35:05,039 and in many many ways, Joe Rogan is not wrong. 592 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,519 Human beings were created in the image of God to 593 00:35:07,679 --> 00:35:12,159 create and be productive and be reproductive. Work is super important, 594 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,719 no matter what your hand finds to do, do it 595 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,639 with all your might, Ecclesiastes says. But Ecclesiastes also tells 596 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,559 us that working for the sake of working is striving 597 00:35:21,679 --> 00:35:25,000 after the wind. That's why Scotti Scheffler has the real 598 00:35:25,119 --> 00:35:27,960 key to meaning figured out. It isn't found in golf 599 00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:31,239 or work or fame. It's not even only found in 600 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,760 his wife and child. Ultimately, it's found in a saving 601 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,400 relationship with the God of the universe through faith in Jesus, 602 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,639 and with that you can never lose. All Right, that's 603 00:35:42,639 --> 00:35:44,679 going to do it for me today. Thanks so much 604 00:35:44,679 --> 00:35:46,960 for tuning into the Kyli cast I will be right 605 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000 back here next week with more. In the meantime, just 606 00:35:50,079 --> 00:36:02,280 remember the truth hurts, but it won't kill us.